That’s why I thought this post could contain a bit of information on how we are doing with the whole moving to Sweden thing.

“I wish I had some more information” I’ve been saying this over and over to myself (and others) for the last couple of months. People keep asking if I know anything more about the moving, and my reply has been “Only that we are moving in the end of August“.

However this time I know a bit more! Yesterday I received a mail from one of the people in charge of human resources at our Swedish office, asking what kind of apartment we would like.  If we wanted with 2 rooms or more, how much rent we would be able to pay, and what kind of job Alina might be interested in. I hastily replied that we would love at least a 2 room apartment, with 6500,- NOK as max rent, and Alina would prefer NOT to work with cleaning, children or old people. Other then that she would be cool with more or less anything.

We are yet to receive a reply on this, but I was told they are two people working on finding us an apartment, which means we should be receiving a mail soon about the details. I’m quite excited to see what they find and if we will be able to see photos of it. What would be even better, would if someone from our office in Stockholm would be able to check the place out, and OK it for us.

As for moving our things from Trondheim. We have been informed that they will pay for a moving company to drive all our things to Stockholm. How we will get there, I’m not sure of yet, but I’m guessing it’s by plane, sponsored by the office. If not, we’ll just find some way to get there, all tough plane would probably be the best option.

What’s even cooler, is that our company have started a separate department just for our 1.line support, and it will be located in Överkalix in Northern Sweden, this means I will probably not be taking any more phone calls from old ladies wanting help with their E-Mails accounts anymore. Currently there are 7 new people starting with full 1.line support there, while us in the Stockholm office will be focusing on 2/3.line registry and technical issues. Just the way It’s supposed to be.

As we get close to moving, I can’t stop from feeling a bit sad about it. Moving away from all the people I’ve come to know and love in Trondheim. I have been living here for roughly 6 years now, and gotten to know some amazing people. I’ve grown to love this city and how relaxed and pretty it is, I’ve found a job I enjoy doing and a girl that I would gladly spend the rest of my life with.

Hopefully I might move back some day, and settle here, but for now, I am willing to move where ever I am needed, In order to improve my career. Seeing as my education is rather slim, I need all the experience I can get. Even if it means moving from loved ones.

“Why is it when you love someone so much that you can never find the right words to tell them?”-alb to justin

So after getting some good info on what to do, I went to Trondheim Katedralskole and had a chat with them, about what I could take, what I needed to read up on and what to expect. I will probably try to sign up on English and Social studies exams next winter and hopefully better my grade significally (which in all sense really isn’t going to be that hard…)

Well, as I said, I’m currently at the library again. Managed to find myself a nice spot by the window. Sadly, I need to go to GKV soon so I can meet up with the third and finaly person wanting to rent the last room this February. Hopefully he’ll take it and I’ll be free! :D

Anywho, since yesterday there hasn’t really been much new. I had a really horrible survey to go trough yesterday at work, asking guys around 16-19 about smoking. Safe to say, allot of people around that age are pretty moronic, so it wasn’t particularly fun. Still, it took about 15 minutes to do, and most people said yes, so the day went pretty fast.
Today I’ll probably be on the same survey, and hopefully it will go just as fast as it did yesterday. It seems this week is going to be pretty repetative work-wise.

Oh, and just before I pack my things and go. Me and Alina are having a 1/2 year aniversary this weekend! :D I’m so happy…. It doesn’t really feel like 1/2 a year at all, more like 1 month. We’ll probably celebrate with dinner and such, but where and when hasn’t yet been decided. Somewhere nice no doubt :)

However, I’d like to just write a bit about how my day with dad turned out. Now to be fair, I was rather nervous before meeting up with him at a bar in Porsgrunn. It’s been so long since I last saw him, and I didn’t quite know how he would be, or react to me wanting to meet up with him, after 2 years of no contact. However, it turned out very good I must say. We got along great, had a couple of beers and talked some more, and before we knew it, 2 hours had passed. And actually, we were even photographed by the local paper for a column called “På by’n”.

I was very happy that we had such a good time, and even more that my kid sister, Marie, really wanted to meet up with me after Christmas and spend the day together. Hopefully we’ll all have a bit better relationship from now on, and at least keep in touch now and then. It made me very happy, and I went home with a smile on my face that day.

As for today (or as some claim “yesterday”) there haven’t been much going on. Most of my day I’ve spent at home keeping the fire burning and watching more Heroes. I’m almost done with the season and it pains me to think there’s no more until the next season starts airing. I am however looking forward to it with great pleasure.
I have also managed to get a proper upload system up and running. One that enables me to upload and share files quickly, either by link or email, and it also keeps track on how many downloads each file has had. And a very crude and simple script that gives a more graphic representation of how long the upload takes, how fast it’s going and how much there is left. Both will be available at my dump site shortly. If anyone require a place to quickly upload a file and share it among friends, don’t be afraid to use it. The site is pruned regularly and storage space is not an issue.

I also managed to take a couple of pictures of the incredible winter we’re having down here. It’s simply mesmerizing to go outside and see all the snow crystals covering everything.

And just as a small tidbit at the end. I highly recommend you go check out JibJab.com. It’s a page where you put yourself into movie clips. I had a great time and laughed myself silly watching my friends jumping around :D

And just so it’s been said, yes I miss Alina an awfully lot. We call every day several times a day, and proclaim our longing for each other. I can hardly wait to get back up there and meet her yet again. I love you darling! <3

So what’s news? Hm, to sum it up work has been dominating most of my days the past couple of weeks. Ever since I started on work I have been feeling a bit stressed out, not in a kind of “too much work” way, far from it, but in a “oh no i have to go to work in only 4 hours” kind of way. Silly i know, but working late makes the day before you head for work feel like it’s just a waiting period. Anyway, I’m working, which is a good thing. And work is far from tiring, I mean, i came home from work about an hour ago, and what little tiredness I might have, is gone as soon as i get to sit down in my sofa, have some food and a cup of warm cocoa.

Now economically, it’s a bit different. I’m currently waiting for my paycheck from work, which haven’t showed up yet. All tough I’m not that surprised. In most cases they take everything from 1 day to 11 days after month change before they show up, but i wouldn’t mind having it right now. I need to pay the rent for this month, and it would be nice to have a couple of coins to spend on bread. I have let Wilma know that my rent will be late though, and she’s cool with it, so there’s really not that much rush. However, I wouldn’t mind paying back the people i owe money to as soon as possible, seeing as what annoys me the most is having debt. I will however just have 200kr left by then, but I’ll feel a hell of alot better :)

You might be wondering what i do at work, right? Well, okay maybe you don’t, but I’m going to say it anyway, so HAH!. Ok, first week i asked people about cellphone subscriptions, then i asked people about the climate and then it was about recycling glass and metal, and now I’m on to asking people about an electric company. So far the ones i enjoyed the most was the ones about cellphones, the others have either some really insulting questions, or too repetitive, or they’re too long and boring. This week I’ll probably stay on asking about the electric company for tomorrow, then I’ll probably get something else. We need about 400 interviews on that one, so it should be done by tomorrow.

Yesterday was great fun by the way, thanks a lot to Elin and Julian for having us over to such a great Tuesdays night, with cocoa, food and snacks. We were about 10 people, and I felt as social as I’ve not been for weeks. I’m really looking forward to the next Tuesdays night gathering :)

Speaking of social, I really need to get more social again. Lately the only things me and Alina have been doing is waking up, hanging around in my room all day, then I head of to work around 4. Tomorrow she’ll be at school from 8′o clock, so hopefully I’ll be able to drag my lazy bum outside the door, get some errands done, then meet up with someone. If anyone is up for something, let me know! I’ll be starting work at 4 as usual.
And just as a side note, from week 42 I’ll be working from 9 to 14 (I think), so I’ll be available all afternoon instead then :)

Now, as for computer stuff go, I’ve made myself some notes while being bored at work about what i should blog about, and the following topics have been brought to mind:

- Write about Jumpingmushroom.com statistics
- Make some notes on how I’m doing on the AdSense moneymaking.

Write howto on:
– Getting SymbianOS applications
– Running ScummVM on various systems
– Pimping your Gnome or Fluxbox UI
– Pimping your bash prompt

- Top 5 desktop applications for GNU/Linux
- Top 5 movies you must see

We’ll see what i can get done. Most of the topics have either been done, or are a bit too boring, but it would be nice to write something more then an inner circle of friends would be interested in reading.

Oh, and while i remember it.
TODO:
- Add avatars to every post on the blog

That’s it for now, I think. Not much else i can write about that would seem much of an interest to people. I mean, I could write about how it’s going with me and Alina, but by how much you guys have been seeing of me lately, I’m sure that explains most of it ;)

Ciao for now, I’ll try to get some more blogging done during the next couple of days, or in worst case during the weekend.

Anyway, enough with the whining. I got some money from my mom to pay the rent today, so now I’m safe for another month, which is ace. This means i really have to give it my everything to apply for jobs and get whatever i can get during the next couple of weeks. Hopefully something will appear and i can pay both my mom and Silje back the money i owe them :)

Right now I’m having a chat with a friend of mine on msn, seems he got dumped last week and he’s taking it pretty bad…. I’m giving him all the usual tips like “It will work out eventually” or “keep yourself occupied until she knows for sure”, but for some odd reason, i feel like I’ve heard it all before….. oh that’s right, I have heard it all before. It’s so strange, one would think that when i was in that position, and how annoyed i was with all the same answers over and over again, you would think that i would have something better to say, but no, i guess it’s just the way it’s supposed to be. You can’t say anything to make a person feel better, they have to do it on their own. All you can do is be a support beam and not a leaning pillar, trying to push people into feeling better.

As for the weekend, there were rumors that Sonja and Gaute was going to have a moving in party tomorrow, so me and Alina might be attending that, if not, we’ll probably no doubt figure out something to do. Alina is working most of the weekend, she was really going to leave for Levanger this weekend and celebrate her and her fathers birthday, but they called her from work today and wanted her for the weekend, so she couldn’t really say no, so she’ll probably be going next weekend and return on Saturday and work that plus Sunday. So this means we’ll probably be spending tomorrow and Sunday morning together, and then she’ll come to my place after work and spend the night there. Works out okay really, I’ve spent every other day at her place these past 4 weeks, more or less, and I’ve still not grown tired of it :)

Today i haven’t done much of interest. I woke up, met Silje at a café and we sat talking for quite some time about this and that. Then we went shopping (or rather, she went shopping, and i was her faithful assistant) for clothes. Then i went back home. My days aren’t really as exciting as i wished them to be, but i guess it’s only as interesting as you make it yourself.

Oh, and i put together an rasterbation! But, I’m not going to say what it is, it’s going to be a surprise for those coming to my moving-in party this coming Saturday :)

Tomorrow, it’s back on the streets again. Hopefully I’ll manage to at least visit a couple of temp agencies before i meet up with Alina again. It’s been a week since i last saw her, and I’ve been looking forward to seeing her again for what seems an eternity. Hopefully we’ll still get along and have a nice day. She’s moving to Trondheim and should probably be done moving in by tomorrow.

Yeah! I realized a couple of days ago that i really wanted to go to Storåsfestivalen ,so i just bought some tickets on pure impulse, and tomorrow I’m heading up there. I’m really looking forward to it ^^. We’re even having a band camp with banners and the lot! I’ll see if i can do some blogging trough my cellphone from there so i can do a live updated on what I’m up to there :)

In other news, it seems i might have caught myself a bit of a girlfriend….And i love it! She’s a great girl, 19 years from Ålesund and she’s going to study IT on the university this fall. More to come, i presume :]

This made me think things trough and wonder, why is it you appreciate people so much more, when they’re about to go? Why do we take people for granted when they’re alive and well? At the same time, I’m blessed with the fact that my grandparents has been a significant impact on my childhood. There was nothing more enjoyable then to go visit them with mom when i was little, have dinner, coffee and cake (or soda and cakes for me of course), or go swimming in the ocean down by the shore. I remember countless times in my older years, that one of my grandmothers favorite stories at the coffee tables was about the time when i was little, and my mom had to drop me off there because she was picking up my father from the army in Oslo. And how i cried so hard and refused to leave when my mom came to pick me up. She really loved me, and i loved being there with them. I never refused to go visit them whenever my mom asked, and even in later years i still didn’t refuse. It was just so peaceful and relaxing to go there, seeing the ocean, just lying in the grass outside their house eating strawberries from their little strawberry field and truly feel alive.

Now she’s sick, has a slight touch of amnesia and keeps mixing up names constantly. She’s a totally different person, and i hate it. That’s why I’ve decided not to go visit her, not when she’s like this. If she gets better, I’d of course love to, but i don’t want the last memory of my beloved grandmother to be her on the sickbed not knowing who i am….. The odds she’ll get any better is slim to none, so my last memory of her will be last Christmas, when we met for Christmas breakfast at my uncle and aunt’s place. She was happy, knew who i was and i got a good hug from her. I’m content.

I’ve also decided I’m going to write a speech at her sermon, and let everyone know that she truly was one of the few people in my family that really meant allot to me, and that made me feel safe and loved.